Acceptable Fonts

[theuedimaster]

I was wondering:

1. What fonts can I use on my webpage that I should always work on other computers.

2. What fonts can I use on my webpage that works on other computers, except maybe old ones.

3. Is there anyway of using any type of font on a webpage, and merely send the font information to the other computer so they can see the page properly?

4. Here is my site: sigmaseven.net , what font do you think I should have? At the moment it is Franklin Gothic Medium, which looks pretty good (in my opinion), but it turns into arial on older comps.

Thanks, Uedi

[Paul Jr]

See this site (http://www.codestyle.org/css/font-family/sampler-WindowsResults.shtml).
I’m not sure how you would figure that out.
No, not really.
What font you choose is really a matter of personal preference. You can set a list of fonts to choose from:
font-family: 'palatino linotype', 'bookman old style', georgia, sans-serif;. Each subsequent font specified is the fallback if the user does not have the font before it installed on his/her system.

[AdamGundry]

Also note that you should end with a generic font family (http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS2/fonts.html#generic-font-families), so browsers can display something resembling an appropriate font.

Adam

[Charles]

Checkout the Microsoft Typography, Fonts and products (http://www.microsoft.com/typography/fonts/default.aspx) page. It'll give you an idea of who is likely to have what font. And you can expect that everybody has Microsoft's core fonts for the Web. There is a way to embed fonts, but that's better left not done.

Best practice:

font-family: The font you really want, A second best option from among those core fonts, A generic font-family

Example:

font-family: 'Century Gothic', Verdana, sans-serif

[theuedimaster]

Thanks a lot guys!